Brunswick County’s purchase of land along the Intracoastal Waterway near Holden Beach for $3.5 million in December continued to stir residents to share their opinions of the county commissioners decision.

The county bought nearly 35 acres of land on three parcels that stretch from Holden Beach Road SW to the Intracoastal Waterway, just west of the Holden Beach Bridge. The properties, being sold by Sweetwater Investments LLC, are undeveloped.

Service organizations in North Brunswick County are partnering to assist local residents in need and will organize a community service board at a Feb. 12 meeting at Leland’s town hall.

The community partnership resulted from a community service organization meeting hosted by the town on Oct. 30, 2014, which was held to assist North Brunswick’s population of unemployed, underemployed, and poverty stricken families.

The group first met to discuss community assistance efforts and out of that meeting they organized a clothing drive.

LELAND — A North Brunswick High School student is being treated for injuries at New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington after being shot just yards away from the school’s campus in Leland.

Officials with the New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington contacted the Leland Police Department just before noon Wednesday to report someone was being treated there for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, school district spokeswoman Jessica Swencki said in a news release.